Word: scarlatti
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...piano's first recording was released this week (The Siena Pianoforte, Esoteric), and it sounds good enough, indeed, to be called King David's Harp. The record contains six little Scarlatti sonatas and one bigger one by Mozart (K. 333), elegantly played by rising Manhattan Pianist Charles Rosen. Although the piano's origin is closer to Mozart's day than Scarlatti's, the gem-pure Scarlatti pieces are more effectively unveiled. Through Pianist Rosen's subtle fingers-and the piano's remarkable characteristics-the piquant upper lines take on the diamond-point clarity...
...played by Robert Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...
...some Broadway overtones, for a series of Sunday-midnight concerts. Looking a little like a pudgy, scholarly Satan, Harpsichordist Valenti threaded his way among the tables, mounted the platform and affectionately patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than they do a larger concert hall. Customers found the music relaxing and, after the strangeness of the first few notes had worn...
...interest in the instrument is not to die out. He is building a reputation as one of the most imaginative harpsichordists in the U.S., giving some 20 solo recitals a year and lecturing about the music he plays. Valenti has begun a musical marathon: recording all 555 of Scarlatti's gemlike Sonatas (for Westminster). In the past three years he has completed 72, but half seriously wonders whether he will ever be able to finish...
...Rimsky-Korsakov and Bizet. Rather, he uses irregular rhythms, unresolved harmonic tensions, and occasional folk tunes to create an atmosphere of barely concealed Latin violence. The jangling sound of the harpsichord and an accompaniment reduced to five instruments further the effect and connote its inspiration: the sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Harpsichordist Melville Smith and his ensemble did full justice to lyrical elements in the score, but they lacked the precision essential to this music; a conductor would have helped immeasureably...